Therborn The Killing Fields of Inequality

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7991-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten, E-Book

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is asocio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces ourcapabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity,our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participatein the world. This book shows that inequality is literally akilling field, with millions of people dying premature deathsbecause of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not onlyin the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries,as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK,Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millionsof human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations ofinequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class.
But this book is about experiences of equalization too,highlighting moments and processes of equalization in differentparts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, fromthe Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates thetoughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can beavoided: this book shows how.
Clear, succinct, wide-ranging in scope and empirical in itsapproach, this timely book by one of the world's leadingsocial scientists will appeal to a wide readership.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Therborn, Göran

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures page vi
Tables vii
Introduction 1
I. The Fields 5
1. Human, Nasty and Short: Life under Inequality 7
2. Behind the Doors of Exclusion 20
II. Theory 35
3. Theoretical Cross-Draught 37
4. Three Kinds of (In)Equality and Their Production 48
III. History 69
5. Inequality and the Rise of Modernity 71
6. A Historical Six-Pack: Three Inequalities in
Global and National History 79
IV. Today's Unequal World 101
7. Current World Patterns and Dynamics of Inequalities 103
8. Three Puzzles of Contemporary Inequalities 132
V. Possible Futures 151
9. Overcoming Inequality - Yesterday and Tomorrow 153
10. The Decisive Battlefields of Future (In)Equality 166
References 185
Index 202

Über Autor(innen)

Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at theUniversity of Cambridge and author of The World: ABeginner's Guide.